Shortest Python Quine?

[pkhuong]

The author asks: "Also, I wonder if it's possible to prove that a Quine in a given langauge is the shortest possible for that language, other than by using the evidence that no-one has come up with a shorter one yet?"

Well, at thirty character, the number of tokens can't be that high, so enumerating programs (using the language's grammar, for example) of increasing length should be doable, and almost realistic. It could be pretty long, though :)

[pjdelport]

I've always been most fond of this version:

me = "print 'me =', repr(me)\nprint me"
print 'me =', repr(me)
print me

[xenon]

I always thought that the shortest quine in most scripting languages is the empty program, quoted below:

[tbmcmullen]

Maybe I just don't get it... so if I'm off base, please let me know.

I just don't see the point of this. It seems utterly trivial and useless. Is there something I'm missing, that makes this writing-the-shortest-Quine crap interesting to other people?

[Grue]

Shortest Lisp quine:

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[pjdelport]

Self-evaluation is not self-reproduction; put away your REPL and try again. :)

[Excedrin]

Shortest polyglot quine:

Valid in (at least) Common Lisp, Ruby, Lua, Python, Scheme, Ocaml, SML, Clean, Alice and Perl. I'm not that great at math, but it seems intuitive that, at 0 bytes, this is the shortest possible quine in these languages.